Lojcs

@ Lojcs @lemm.ee

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5mo ago

Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
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Lojcs @lemm.ee 5mo ago

Is this an actual concern or a theoretical one? I think I heard that some nvidia specific features don't work out of the box in some games but never heard issues due to wine 'not implementing something'. I feel like that would just cause a crash, no?

5mo ago

How to enable HDR in-game? In launcher?

It adds hdr support to vulkan drivers that don't have hdr support I think, it used to be a thing for all gpus but I assume nvidia's implementation is faulty somehow

5mo ago

How to enable HDR in-game? In launcher?

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Lojcs @lemm.ee 5mo ago

Apparently hdr wsi is still required on nvidia, my problems went away once I enabled that

5mo ago

How to enable HDR in-game? In launcher?

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Lojcs @lemm.ee 5mo ago

Nevermind, I just tried it with proton-em and remembered what happened last time. It can be turned on but it looks like a grayscale filter on the screen so it's better left off.

Also tried control with proton-em but the hdr looks super wrong on that game now but not sure if it is because proton em or if the new built in hdr setting is not as good as the hdr mod that I used to use

Edit: just tried with witcher 3 too, never tried it before but it is also desaturated, maybe a bit less than crysis tho. Also with hdr enabled framegen started artifacting like crazy

Edit 2: Oh shame on me, should've rtfm. It requires enabling hdr wsi on nvidia drivers. Everything works now

5mo ago

How to enable HDR in-game? In launcher?

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Lojcs @lemm.ee 5mo ago

What game is it? Wanted to know because I'm having the same iszue with crysis 1 remaster

6mo ago

Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 8th

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Lojcs @lemm.ee 6mo ago

Progressed a bunch more in witcher 3 but got burnt out again. Finished ugly baby and it seems a bunch of side quests become unavailable after isle of mists and I don't have time to binge them nowadays.

Tried to make progress in celeste and they bleed pixels but they were too hard. I think I'll give up on golden strawberries and do the other stuff on celeste and might end up giving up on tbp entirely as the fire world seems impenetrable. The difficulty curve on that game is insane

Currently looking for a short ish easy game thag I can just play from beginning to the end without getting stuck or feeling completionist fomo. Suggestions?

6mo ago

Why do low framerates feel so much worse on modern video games?

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Lojcs @lemm.ee 6mo ago

The latency numbers of displays ie the 8-9 or 40ms include any framebuffer the display might or might not have. If it is less than the frame time it is safe to assume it's not buffering whole frames before displaying them.

Your GPU has a frame buffer that’s essentially never less than one frame, and often more.

And sometimes less, like when vsync is disabled.

That's not to say the game is rendered in from top left to bottom right as it is displayed, but since the render time has to fit within the frame time one can be certain that its render started one frame time before the render finished, and it is displayed on the next vsync (if vsync is enabled). That's 22 ms for 45 fps, another 16 ms for worst case vsync miss and 10 ms for the display latency makes it 48 ms. Majora' mask at 20 fps would have 50ms render + 8ms display = 58 ms of latency, assuming it too doesn't miss vsync

6mo ago

Why do low framerates feel so much worse on modern video games?

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Lojcs @lemm.ee 6mo ago

Standards were settled on based on power frequencies, but CRTs were equally capable of 75, 80, 85, 120Hz, etc.

That's why I specified 60hz :)

I see that you meant TVs specifically but I think it is misleading to call processing delays 'inherent' especially since the LG TV you mentioned (which I assume runs at 60hz) is close to the minimum possible latency of 8.3ms.

6mo ago

Why do low framerates feel so much worse on modern video games?

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Lojcs @lemm.ee 6mo ago

First time hearing that about OLEDs, can you elaborate? Is it that the lack of inherent motion blur makes it look choppy? As far as I can tell that's a selling point that even some non-oled displays emulate with backlight strobing, not something displays try to get rid of.

Also the inherent LCD latency thing is a myth, modern gaming monitors have little to no added latency even at 60hz, and at high refresh rates they are faster than 60hz crts

Edit: to be clear, this is the screen's refresh rate, the game doesn't need to run at hfr to benefit.

6mo ago

Your Attention Span Is Ruining Gaming

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Lojcs @lemm.ee 6mo ago

It really is. I often find myself avoiding long games with intermittent text or dialog (RPGs!) because I get bored when there's none and want to listen to a podcast but can't because then I'll miss the next dialog.